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TEACHING ENGLISH FOR EXAMS VS GENERAL ENGLISH

Teaching English as a Foreign Language is not a one-size-fits-all job. If you are an EFL teacher, there are many different hats you can be e...[Read More]

5 DIFFICULTIES TEACHING ADULT LEARNERS

Whether we want to admit it or not, every English as a Foreign Language teacher has their favourite class – be it kindergarten, teen exam cl...[Read More]

5 INNOVATIONS THAT HAVE CHANGED ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

The field of English language teaching may be as old as the hills, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not changing. Teaching methods and techni...[Read More]

EARTH HOUR: WHAT CAN YOU DO?

On 30th March, from 8.30 to 9.30 pm local time, people around the world will be celebrating Earth Hour. What started out as a lights out eve...[Read More]

ENCOURAGING STUDENTS TO SPEAK ENGLISH

Considering that they spend their time and money to be in our classrooms to learn English, you would think our students would want to alloca...[Read More]

LISTENING ADVICE FOR EFL STUDENTS

You may not realise it, but listening is a skill. Even in our native language it can be difficult to understand what someone is saying if th...[Read More]

3 FUN WAYS TO USE MINI WHITEBOARDS

Most of us have whiteboards in the classroom. They’re usually big and take up the majority of a wall. We use them to write down vocabulary, ...[Read More]

5 QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE ACCEPTING A TEFL JOB

Applying for a job is not an easy process, regardless of whether you’re a waitress or a CFO. For a job teaching English as a Foreign Languag...[Read More]

15 WORDS YOU MAY NOT REALISE AREN’T ENGLISH

It’s no secret that many of our English words are in fact not English at all. English has been around for thousands of years, but there are ...[Read More]

TEACHING UNPLUGGED IN THE EFL CLASSROOM

Teaching Unplugged is just one of the many teaching techniques that you can see being used in English as a Foreign Language classrooms all a...[Read More]

A LANGUAGE-RICH CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT

The English as a Foreign Language classroom is a very special space. It is often the only place our English language learners will be expose...[Read More]

5 BOOKS EVERY EFL TEACHER SHOULD READ

We get it, you’re busy. As an English as a Foreign Language teacher (actually any kind of teacher!) you don’t really have a lot of time to s...[Read More]

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